National
Leader of APC, Bola Tinubu, has reportedly asked for the immediate
resignation of the party's National Chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun.
According to Vanguard, Tinubu made the demand in a stinking communiqué
sent to Oyegun and other party chieftains.The former
Lagos state governor in the letter accused Oyegun of interfering and
sabotaging the will of democracy in Ondo State by overriding the
decision of the party's appeal panel that asked for a fresh governorship
primary following investigations that showed that the delegates’ list
used had been tampered with. He alleged that APC was now under threat of being suffocated by anti-democratic forces pretending to be progressives,
His communique reads

“The APC, a party
born of the quest for democratic good governance, is under critical
threat by those who managed to be in the party but never of it. From the
party’s inception, the principles of democratic fairness and justice
were to guide APC internal deliberations. Party founders realized that
only by intramural fair dealing could the party remain faithful to the
progressive ideals that we presented to the Nigerian electorate as our
governing creed. If the party could not justly govern itself, it would
find it difficult to establish and maintain just government throughout
the nation. In essence, the party was the embodiment of a democratic
promise made between its members as well as a democratic vow made to the
public. Evidently, some errant members believe promises and vows are
mere words to be easily spoken and more easily broken.

Chairman
John Oyegun has breached these good pledges in a most overt and brazen
display. In doing so, Oyegun has dealt a heavy blow to the very party he
professes to lead. It is an awful parent who suffocates his own child
for the sake of a few naira. The party was supposed to buttress APC
members elected to government at all levels. Because of Oyegun’s conduct
of our affairs, the party is rapidly becoming an albatross to those it
was meant to help. Oyegun’s comportment regarding the Ondo State primary
will become the textbook definition of political treachery and
malfeasance of the basest order. In early September, the state primary
was held. A purported winner was named. Having faith in the ways of the
party, Tinubu publicly accepted what he assumed to be a verdict honestly
derived. As a democrat, one must face the possibility of defeat and
accept such as outcome with as much grace as one would embrace victory.
One of the few bright spots during the conduct of the primaries was
Jigawa Governor, Alhaji Mohammed Badaru Abubakar. He chaired the primary
convention with decorum and impartiality. He was unaware that a
tampered list had been slipped into the process. Indeed within hours of
the announcement, news began to filter in that gravely disturbed me.
Credible allegations of fraud troubled the waters. The delegate list had
been materially altered by someone in a strategic position to so do.
The names of over 150 valid delegates were excised to make room for an
equal number of impostors. This was not a clerical error. The alteration
was wilfully executed that the primary would be directed toward a
chosen end that bore nothing in common with the will of most state party
members. A cunning few had tried to deceive the many into believing
they were outnumbered. A conspiracy to steal the Ondo primary had been
uncovered. Fortunately, the grand deception afoot had been unable to
cover its tracks fast enough. Truth began to cry for justice. “Several
candidates filed petitions contesting the result. The party established
an investigative board to review the evidence.

In
a two to one decision, the panel found the delegate roster had suffered
tampering. The panel recommended that a new primary should be held
using the valid delegate list. This recommendation was tabled before the
National Working Committee (NWC). After many hours of deliberations
spanning several days, a final vote was held by the NWC. Before hand,
NWC members agreed that the decision of the majority would become the
stance of the party. Such is the way of democracy. The NWC voted six
against five to cancel the fraudulent results and hold an honest
primary. For a moment, it seemed the party would restore its integrity
by giving democracy a chance.

However,
those who sought to scam an entire state would not let the vote of 11
people spoil their enterprise. After the NWC vote, a noticeably agitated
Chairman Oyegun proposed the NWC engage in prayer before concluding the
meeting. Adhering to this chairman’s request, NWC members began to
pray. Seeing that the others had taken his bait, Oyegun used the
prayerful interlude to secretly excuse himself from the meeting.
Contravening the NWC decision and in violation of all rules of
fundamental decency, Oyegun decided to safeguard the fraud done in Ondo
by perpetrating a greater fraud. Oyegun arrogated to himself the right
to submit the name of Rotimi Akeredolu to INEC as the candidate of the
party. Truth has finally come to light. There exists a regressive
element in the party that cares nothing for the progressive ideas upon
which this party was founded. They joined the APC because it was the
best ride available at the time. Now they want to guide the party into
the ditch. They want to turn the party into a soulless entity incapable
of doing good, just like they are. When such a person tastes power,
they shed all good restraint. They come to abuse the trust given them as
if they are the owners of that trust and not its mere custodians. These
people did little to build the party but now will do much to wreck it.
Our party was to stand for change. Oyegun and his fellows seem to be on a
different wave length. They are the cohort of Unchange.

The
APC wants to guide Nigeria into a better tomorrow. Oyegun and the
cohort of unchange want to pull Nigeria back into the past where rigging
and vote stealing were the old and new testaments of politics. They
want the people to think that there is no alternative to their
reactionary system of skewed politics and imperious government. Thus,
they seek to turn the APC into a factory of the very political
malpractices the people soundly rejected in the past election. To choke
the APC in this manner is to kill the chance for progressive reform for
the foreseeable future. Much more than the Ondo primary is at stake.
Oyegun has revealed his team’s game plan: It is the destruction of
progressive politics and governance on behalf of the people. As party
chairman, Oyegun was supposed to protect our internal processes and be
an impartial arbiter, a person in whom all had confidence. Instead, he
donned the garment of a confident man, duping the NWC, the party, and
INEC in one fell blow. He has robbed APC members in Ondo State of the
chance to pick in a fair manner who they believe is the best candidate.
As such, he has broken faith with the party and probably has broken a
few laws. The consequences of what he has done are more expansive than a
man of his scope can fathom,” Tinubu said as he said that Oyegun must
have been under some major sinister influence as to allow what happened.
“With strong expectation, we await a response to Oyegun’s wrongdoing
from those who clamored so long and loudly about Tinubu’s alleged role
in the Ondo primary. Leading into the primary, a prominent lawyer from
Ondo published lengthy missives alleging that Tinubu was a malicious
hand intent on rigging the primary. His letters spoke of his great love
for democracy and justice. Though Oyegun has assaulted democracy in a
most public and vulgar way, this lawyer’s prolific pen will remain
stilled. He dare not publish a word about this travesty. His silence
will be sign for all who care to decipher its meaning. The plan was to
point the accusing finger at Tinubu. With everyone focused on Tinubu,
they would have distracted all attention from the heist they had set in
motion. As fate would have it, the trickery they hoped to conduct in the
shadows has come to light. Those who so actively attributed imaginary
wrong to Tinubu now stand dumb and mute in the face of confirmed
impropriety. They remain silent for reasons they cannot divulge.

Oyegun
and his ilk turn out to be gangsters adorned in the tunic of party
authority. Oyegun has engaged in the strange math where five is greater
than six. This smacks of how the PDP conducted its affairs and
orchestrated its own downfall. Tinubu disparaged such malpractice when
it was not in his party. Tinubu surely disowns it now that it has
invaded the party he helped bring to fruition. Tinubu has consciously
refused to hold any official position with the party to avoid the
perception that he was trying to control all and sundry. Tinubu has even
kept his peace for some time despite many things that happened within
the party that were not quite right. He exercised this forbearance
because the party is young. A collective endeavor cannot avoid the
mistakes and errors of organizational newness and evolution. Yet, the
wrongs Oyegun committed had nothing to do with newness or the mistakes
occasioned by the path of reform. His actions are in the nature of the
old wrongs that have afflicted our national politics much too long. If
Oyegun wants to walk backward into the past, he has every right to it.
However, he has no right to drag the party or any of us with him.
Against our choosing. The informal title of national leader of the party
was given to Tinubu at the onset which he accepted it as a sign from
those who wished to recognize my contributions to the party’s formation.
It is an honorific title which he has been proud to wear until today. I
would rather not have any title yet reside in a party that honors
democracy than hold a title in a party that says it honors me but that
treats justice with indecency. I find greater honour and comfort where
democracy and fairness are found and respected. Oyegun has done the
irredeemable. His coup is an insult to party and to patriot, to reason
and to the reform agenda of this government. To remain silent would be
to admit the defeat of the reform and progressive change many have
labored to bring forth.

While
the forces resistant to change and reform are strong, Tinubu dare not
submit to them. Tinubu encourages all party members not to submit to
them. If we acquiesce in this wrong, the one greater than this shall
cascade upon us. “Oyegun’s transgressions are a warning. He is but the
mercenary of forces that seek to return the nation to the old ways. If
they get away with this infraction, no telling what or whom they will
undermine tomorrow. Much is at stake. On the chopping block, lies the
future of the political party in which the majority of voters had placed
their confidence. To rescue the party, Oyegun must go. He has shown
that he and democratic fair play cannot exist in the same party at the
same time. If Tinubu is to choose between John Oyegun and progress
toward a better Nigeria, the choice has already been made. For those who
care about the party, who care about Nigeria and its chance for a
better tomorrow, now is the time to stand against this brewing evil
before it grows to encompass all we have built and all we hold dear.”

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